Silverlight Cream for November 17, 2009 -- #734

In this Issue: Andrej Tozon, Deborah Kurata, Avi Pilosof, Andrea Boschin, Andy Beaulieu, Damian Schenkelman, smartyP, Kirupa, Alexey Zakharov, and Victor Gaudioso.

Shoutout:

Yikes... if you haven't seen this yet... GO THERE NOW: My Christmas Catalog

For all you 3D enthusiasts, Einar Ingebretsen has announced an Upcoming Balder release

 


From SilverlightCream.com:

Exploring Silverlight behaviors: look Ma, no code!
Andrej Tozon built a Halloween sound player using Expression Blend and Behaviors ... then wrote a tutorial on it over at SilverlightShow... fun stuff!
Silverlight, RIA Services, and Your Business Objects
I'm going back in time and picking up Deborah Kurata's posts. This is a great tutorial on lashing up your business objects, Silverlight, and .NET RIA Services.
Real-time list filtering with Silverlight, MVVM, and PagedCollectionView
I'm also going back in time and picking up Avi Pilosof's posts. This one is on MVVM and Silverlight and the PagedCollectionView.
A ChildWindow management service for MVVM applications
Andrea Boschin is blogging for SilverlightShow with a great article on decoupling child windows from the ViewModel in MVVM. Great demo and all code included.
ANDY’S TOP 10 LIST WHY SILVERLIGHT IS GREAT FOR GAMES
Andy Beaulieu gave a presentation at the Montreal International Game Summit and is sharing his top 10 reasons why Silverlight is great for Games with us.
Learning Prism (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight) MVVM Fundamentals
Damian Schenkelman digs into MVVM in his latest discussion of Prism/WPF/Silverlight. Looks like a good intro with some external links as well.
Silverlight Tips Grab Bag for November
smartyP digs into his list of things that would be useful to know based on his experience in developing Silverlight apps and shares those with all of us.
Working with Layout when DataContexts are Involved
Have you ever had problems rearranging things in Blend and have your DataContexts go nuts? Kirupa explains that and helps to define an orderly way to avoid it.
Shader effects kill performance of Silverlight popup control.
Alexey Zakharov notes a dip in performance when using shader effects on a popup control. He has a demo page and sample project to download and try it out.
New Silverlight Video Tutorial: How to use the FarseerPhysics.dll to create a Ragdoll with Simulated Physics
Victor Gaudioso's latest video tutorial is on using the Jeff Weber's Farseer Physics module to animate a RagDoll


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